Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing sermons for the church year cycle.
Description:
Annotations and pen trials on endleaves., Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 57). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 86) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2011., Binding: eighteenth-century full calf, gilt-tooled., Script: Early gothic miniscule hand., and These sermons also in Paris, Bibl. Mazarine ms. 1042.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality), composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Thomas Aquinas, Super Metaphysicam. Part II: Thomas Aquinas, Super de causis.
Description:
Binding: 14th-15th centuries, Spain. Original sewing on five tawed skin, double supports laced into beech boards. Plain, wound natural color endbands. Single parchment leaf (front) and bifolium (rear), from what appear to be two different Hebrew Bible manuscripts, serve as pastedowns and spine-lining; they have been cut out around the sewing supports. Yellow edges. Covered in what was originally blue tawed skin (now faded) with two fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails. Traces of title (?) scratched onto skin of upper board., Part I: One illuminated initial, rubbed, f. 1r: blue with white highlights on dark red ground with white highlights; terminals of ground extend up and down as modest border in blue, dark red and gold. Flourished initials of various sizes, styles and quality: blue with red penwork designs, red with blue, red with purple (ff. 75r-119r) and red and blue divided with penwork in purple (e.g., f. 88v); some flourished initials with border extensions (e.g., f. 110v). Running headlines in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Traces of guide letters for decorator. Part II: Spaces for decorative initials remain unfilled., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Written by a single scribe in small gothic book hand. Part II (ff. 121-132): Written in a less accomplished gothic script than that in Part I.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle and Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy, Ancient, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Ibn Abī ʻAṣrūn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1099-1189.
Published / Created:
[12--?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 512
Image Count:
557
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Compendium of Nihāyat al-maṭlab (manual of Shafiʻi law) of ʻAbd al-Malik al-Juwaynī. Volume II, from the Kitāb al-buyūʻ through the Kitāb al-shufʻah. and Preceded by 2 leaves of notes.
Description:
Badly water-stained, faded, and corroded in part., Brockelmann omits "Abī" in the author's name; cf. the autograph of vol. I, Bankipore catalog, XIX, 2, no. 1822, where also is found the spelling "min" (not "fi") in the title., Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Old (13th century?) naskhī, for the most part entirely unpointed., and The Bankipore manuscript has 33 lines per page, and the measurements are somewhat smaller than this manuscript, so presumably this is not a holograph.
"140 pieces of original autographs of famous Japanese calligraphers of all ages between the 8th and the early 17th centuries." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., 30.5-chō; 39.4 x 1550 cm. An album, in an old wooden case., In Japanese., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ad1.
Subject (Topic):
Calligraphy, Japanese--To 1600, Japanese manuscripts, and Yale Association of Japan Collection